King Skate

The first feature-length documentary about the rise of skateboarding in Czechoslovakia presents a gripping tale of the search for freedom in a society stifled by the communist regime. Unique archive shots set to a driving punk soundtrack introduce us to the cult masters of the board and their never-ending party ride through the grey days of Normalization.

After following her MD’s order to drink radioactive iodine to kill her overactive thyroid, Guggenheim award winning filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West catapults into debilitating illness and in her quest to regain…